Target-trap.



P. L. ADAMS.

TARGET TRAP.

APPLICATION FILED 1uLY24. T914.

1, 178;:571 v Patented Apr. 4,1916.

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Be it known that I, PHIL L. ADAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Staples, in the county of Todd and State of Minnesota, have invented new and useful Improvements in Target-Traps ofV which the following1 is a specification.

This invention relates to pigeon traps and more particularly to the carrier arm therefor.

In all clay pigeon trapsit is essential that they be adapted to discharge the target at varying horizontal angles as well as vertical ang'les combined with the horizontal angles and also that the target be caused to rotate during` its flight, otherwise an extremely wabbly motion Vand short and slow flight is obtained. l

It is therefore the object of this invention to provide a combined throwing and carrier arm from which the pigeons can be thrown at varying horizontal angles and given a proper degree of rotation so that the target will sail directly. Y

It is another object of the invention to provide a combined throwing and carrier arm for clay targets in which the angle of flightis determined by the position of the target'in the carrier.

Further objects will appear as the following specific description is read in connection with the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this invention, and in Figure l is an elevation showing` the combined throwing and carrying arm mounted upon a conventional representation of a pigeon trap, Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the arm, Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the arm Vwith the upper flange broken away, and Fig. 4l is a transversesectional view taken through the arm approximately on the line 4.-l of Fig.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, l represents a support of any suitable character which has mounted thereon a standard 2 carrying the supporting bar 3.

bar in practice is preferably constructed so as to have movement horizontally and vertically so as to vary the angular Hight of the target although it may be constructed so as to move vertically only, the throwing arm to be hereinafter described taking care ofthe 'horizontal angle. Passing through the outer end of the arm 3 is a stub shaft 4 having a crank arm 5 se- Spec-caton of Letters Patent.

Application led July 24, 1914. `Serial No. 852,964.

' spring G, the opposite end Patented Apr. d, 1916.

cured to its lower end as shown. This crank arm is connected to one end of a spiral of the spring being connected to the standard 2 as shown at 7, and this latter connection is preferably an adjustable one so as to control the tension of the spring 6. The upper end of the stub shaft 4 is secured in the head 8 of the combined throwing arm and carrier so that upon rotation of the crank 5 by the spring, the carrier will be thrown from right to left discharging its target as will be hereinafter described.

The arm comprises a back plate 9 which is formed integrally with the head 8 and carries a friction strip 10 upon which the edge of the target ll bears. This strip may be of any suitable construction or material, but I prefer to use a strip of rubber transversely corrugated as shown in F ig. 3. Secured to the upper and lower edges of the back plate 9 are supporting and guiding flanges l2 and 18, both of which increase in width from their inner to their outer ends as shown and each have heads le corresponding to the head 8 and apertured to receive the stub shaft t.

As shown in Fig. 4, the supporting flange 12 is provided with a recess l5 upon its underside adapted to be engaged by a latching pin 16 controlled, in any suitable manner and preferably being spring elevated so as to automatically engage in the recess when the arm is attracted.

n the operation of the device the arm or carrier is turned about upon its pivotal point until the latch and pin 16 engages in the recess l5 in the bottom of the arm. The target is then placed in the arm resting upon the flange 12 and having its edge in engagement with the corrugated friction base 10. When the latch and pin is released from the recess the arm will be forcibly rotated by the action of the spring 6 and the target will be ejected radially at different angles dependingl upon the position it occupies initially in the'arm. For instance, if the target is placed at the point marked L it will remain within the arm throughout the full sweep and a left hand angle will be obtained. If the target is placed in the position indicated by the letter S it will be ejected and a straight away flight will be obtained while if it is placed in the arm at the position indicated by the letter R a right hand angle instance, the target of course rests upon the flange 12 and has its edge in engagement with the friction piece 10. The flange 13 is constructed to prevent any Wabbling of the target although it normally does noten- Y gage the same.

Having thus described the invention,

what I claim is:

A combined thro-Wing arm and target carrier for pigeon traps comprising a pivoting Y head, a pair of parallel flanges integral with the pivoting in Width fromA the head to their outer ends,

copies of this patent may be obtained for head and gradually increasing' an edge engaging member connecting said flanges and holding them in parallel relation and a corrugated frictional strip secured to said edge engaging member, the lower flange forming a suppprting ange and the upper flange preventing displacement of five cents eachfbyrafe-Ssng the "Commissioner of latents, Washington, D. C. Y y Y 

